Visit of the chapel Sainte-Apolline de Brianny

Name: Visit of the chapel Sainte-Apolline de Brianny
Start: 2023-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Chapelle Sainte-Apolline

Come discover a simple architecture, which conceals an extraordinary mural!

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

The “dance macabre” (16th century) covers all the walls and presents 29 dead/alive couples, with as many men as women.
Apolline is the patron saint of dentists.

Types d'événement

Visite libre

Thèmes 2023

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

Type de public

Tout public

About the location

Chapelle Sainte-Apolline

Rue de la Martolle, 21390 Brianny

Côte-d'Or
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Brianny is a small village in the Auxois, in the valley of the Armançon which has a hundred inhabitants. Nothing seems to attract the attention of heritage lovers and yet its chapel dedicated to Saint Apolline which is of a simple architecture presents its "macabre dance" performed around 1510 - it is one of the rare macabre dances in France and is the subject of a PP "Dance Macabre in the Chapel of St Apolline". The chapel in the absence of a cemetery would have been an ossuary. A small bell tower surmounts the building and one enters a small room where a confessional reigns, then a door gives access to the chapel; on the left is a round stoup.